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August Goals 2020
Hello! Welcome to another goals post for my monthly goal-setting series. If this is your first visit here, thanks for joining me! About a year ago I decided to start setting three specific goals for myself each month. My objective…
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Firecrackers, Fireflies, and Family – 4th of July, 2020
Oh July, why have you been so fleeting this year! I can’t believe there are only a couple of days left before this month is gone. Typically I find July to be such a powerful mid-year marker for me –…
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On Writing and Remembering
I want to remember what it was like back when we were all still there. Momma, Daddy, and me. And of course, our pets too; the cantankerous but tolerant old orange tabby – Catfish, our beautiful Irish setter – Dakota,…
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July Goals 2020
Hello! Welcome to another goals post for my monthly goal-setting series. If this is your first visit here, thanks for joining me! Exactly one year ago I decided to start setting three specific goals for myself each month. My objective…
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On Writing with Purpose
Last month I took an incredible writing workshop with Sonya Spillman called Writing With Purpose. For our first assignment, she asked us to submit a page of our writing and recommended that we start with the prompt(s): writing is… or…
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Finding the Light
In the month of May, I decided to make a study out of finding the light in our everyday lives. With the ongoing overwhelm of the global pandemic and quarantining, we had been having a run of darker days. As…
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On Writing: Musings from the Meadow
“We drank in the smells of the ripe spring air, thick with honeysuckle and freshly cut grass. We lingered outside long after our arrival, hesitant to lose the last stretches of daylight. Dreading the return to confinement of walled-off spaces once more.”
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May Goals 2020
Hello! Welcome to another goals post for my monthly goal-setting series. If this is your first visit here, thanks for joining me! Back in July of 2019 I decided to start setting three specific goals for myself each month. My…
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April Goals 2020: A Letter on Showing Up
Normally this intro would be a chance for me to welcome you to another goals post for my monthly goal-setting series. A series designed to share my goals with you and to provide me with more monthly accountability. But this month,…
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